Virtual Vindication :)

[Scharbag]

We use a backup appliance in our data centre that is based on an EXSi host. On top of that it runs its proprietary OS and uses hardware passthrough for the RAID card.

Kinda neat that there is a commercial solution that uses the same layout that I have been using for FreeNAS/TrueNAS since 2015 :)

Cheers,

 

[jgreco]

We use a backup appliance in our data centre that is based on an EXSi host. On top of that it runs its proprietary OS and uses hardware passthrough for the RAID card.

Yes, that's actually very awesome when you can do that, it gives incredible flexibility for monitoring, updating, upgrading, console access, etc., because you can build all sorts of infrastructure-in-software alongside the NAS.

Kinda neat that there is a commercial solution that uses the same layout that I have been using for FreeNAS/TrueNAS since 2015 :)

*cough* Newbie *cough*

 

[Scharbag]

Yes, that's actually very awesome when you can do that, it gives incredible flexibility for monitoring, updating, upgrading, console access, etc., because you can build all sorts of infrastructure-in-software alongside the NAS.



*cough* Newbie *cough*

LOL - made me giggle.

:)

 

[NickF]

Out of curiosity is this solution from StoneFly? They tried to sell me on something like this and I thought it was funny. They made it seem like it was some revolutionary new thing and called it “a Datacenter in a box” and “airgapped” but what you are describing is literally what the solution is…lol

I passed on it. I bought a Synology instead and have that and Veeam running together so I have two entirely separate backups running, and it was more cost effective to do it that way

 

[Scharbag]

Out of curiosity is this solution from StoneFly? They tried to sell me on something like this and I thought it was funny. They made it seem like it was some revolutionary new thing and called it “a Datacenter in a box” and “airgapped” but what you are describing is literally what the solution is…lol

I passed on it. I bought a Synology instead and have that and Veeam running together so I have two entirely separate backups running, and it was more cost effective to do it that way

It is StoneFly. My predecessor bought the base system. We are just adding a 44 drive shelve to it now. Also bought the dedupe license and some more RAM for it - we will see how that goes. Want to DtoD on the SF in the DC and then leverage our LTO-7 and Veeam for offsite until we can get budget to stand up another disk system at another site (or afford cloud) so we can finally stop using tapes (LTO is great for the money but soooooooo slow to restore).

We also have Synology UC3200s and some other Synology NAS systems (can't beat the price). The one thing with Synology is that their BTRFS system has a 15TB file size limit (which is bullshit) - which we run into in our DC (damn exchange). So, we have to use another option.

Here is hoping the StoneFly system works. :)